Poly chess championship: join us now

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DrSpike
MtG is a responsible member of the 'Poly administration team...........he would never do such a thing.

:stir:

:nice try:



Actually, if we get enough action to dominate this forum, we have a better case. More players, lots of games, keep it going for a while, and who knows?

[Pave]

Originally posted by Trajanus
about joining. it all depends on how good you are really? are you guys good?

Quite good, I play every week in chess "club" with old-wolks thinking about that, I´ll start to go there again after the summer.

[Harry Seldon]

Trajanus, do you want a match? I've been beaten twice now so I'm not posing much of a challenge to some of the experts here.

[MJW]

Can i play?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Sure. muxec is setting coordinating the games.

[MJW]

Pair me muxec!

[zorbop]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Didn't hurt to try for the icon. As regards the forum there just isn't enough traffic at the moment.

instead we could all put "part of the 'poly chess club" in our signatures. if we all did this, getting an icon couldn't be too far away.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I changed mine to link to this thread.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MJW
Pair me muxec!

I just finished up a game.

I've done (am finishing the third) 2 as white and 1 as black, so I'm available for another now.

[Harovan]

I'm also available for the next game. Played 2 white 1 black. By the way, does anyone keep record of all the games?

[Harovan]

I went ahead and created a game plan for a tournament between 6 players. That gives 15 games. Since we already started 8 (and finished 6 of them), we're over 50% and I would suggest to stop to take new players for this tournament.

The game plan is:

Round 1: 1-6, 5-2, 3-4
Round 2: 5-1, 4-6, 2-3
Round 3: 1-4, 3-5, 6-2
Round 4: 3-1, 2-4, 5-6
Round 5: 1-2, 6-3, 4-5

Now we have to assign our 6 players (MtG, Harry Seldon, muxec, Jaguar Warrior, zorbop and me) to these numbers. There are 720 possibilities to do this, but we have to honor the games already played and the colors the players had in these games. So there remain only 10 opportunities. I wrote a program to calculate them.

To choose one of them, I need a random number from 1 to 10. Would one of you be so kind to post one?

[DrSpike]

I'm impartial anyway, and I choose 3.

[Harovan]

Ok, that gives:

1 = MichaeltheGreat
2 = Harry Seldon
3 = Sir Ralph
4 = zorbop
5 = muxec
6 = Jaguar Warrior

The rounds and results are:

Round 1
MichaeltheGreat	Jaguar Warrior	1-0
muxec	Harry Seldon
Sir Ralph	zorbop
Round 2
muxec	MichaeltheGreat	running
zorbop	Jaguar Warrior
Harry Seldon	Sir Ralph	0-1
Round 3
MichaeltheGreat	zorbop	running
Sir Ralph	muxec	1-0
Jaguar Warrior	Harry Seldon	1-0
Round 4
Sir Ralph	MichaeltheGreat	1-0
Harry Seldon	zorbop
muxec	Jaguar Warrior	0-1
Round 5
MichaeltheGreat	Harry Seldon	running
Jaguar Warrior	Sir Ralph	0-1
zorbop	muxec	running

[MichaeltheGreat]

All that work, and you're virtually guaranteed to win anyway.

As we have a slow, steady trickle of players, and a huge user base, maybe we can set up some form of poly ladder system or something similar for ongoing games.

[Harovan]

A ladder is a good idea, but I haven't any experience with setting one up. Any ideas?

(Off to my daily walk now)